Fires were set in the street and a bus was burned during anti-immigration protests in Belfast on Tuesday, following a knife attack that left a man in his 40s with critical injuries.
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The unrest came after police arrested a 30-year-old asylum seeker from Sudan on suspicion of attempted murder over Monday night’s attack in north Belfast. Northern Ireland first minister Michelle O’Neill condemns the ‘horrific’ attack and joined politicians across the UK in appealing for calm, saying: ‘My message today is one of calm, and don’t allow those people that don’t care about people here to incite hatred, to incite fear’
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